Publications by category: case studies and research reports
This is the first solidarity economy mapping report conducted in a township community. The survey covered households and enterprises that make up Ivory Park township. It also focused on the local solidarity economy cooperative movement. The report mapped the different issues facing households, the community, solidarity and non-solidarity economy enterprises.
This is a study of 20 cooperatives that have been in existence in the rural Eastern Cape. The case studies identify various factors limiting the growth and development of the cooperatives. Central in the regard is the role of the state.
This research report focuses on twenty case studies of successful cooperatives on the African continent. It also includes case studies on two successful cooperative colleges on the continent.
Over the past ten years cooperative development and movement building has happened under a cloud of policy uncertainty. Beyond the rhetoric of cooperative support, cooperatives emerging in poor communities have failed in many places due to the absence of state responsiveness or inappropriate state support and the lack of leadership from within the cooperative movement.
The Co-operative and Policy Alternative Center (COPAC) conducted this survey in an attempt to develop a better understanding of the support environment, institutional capacity and practices of co-operatives and the co-operative movement in Gauteng Province. COPAC has worked to build co-operatives in Gauteng for the past six years.